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I will post the long version here, mainly because I have nothing better to do.
Here is the situation. I bought a NC about 6 months ago. I rooted it using Auto Nooter. I have no idea what ROM I installed to be honest. I'm very much a novice at this. And I'm quite stupid to boot, I might add. It has worked relatively ok since then. The ROM seemed a bit buggy and I had some initial troubles with constant reboots, in addition to some basic things not working and way bogging the thing down, but in general it was ok. I haven't used it much since unless I was traveling.
Today....I was traveling. Traveling to BFE. As such, I decided to bust out my trusty NC and download a new book while I was waiting for my flight. I did so, and something went a bit haywire. It seems that somehow, without prompting, the device has restored itself to the stock B&N ROM (1.1 maybe?). Yet - the Android OS is still there. For example I can click on my task manager app in the lower left corner of the homescreen and it shows that all of my apps are running and I can even switch to them. But my homescreen is defaulted to the B&N one showing my eBooks and I can't figure out how to get my Android launcher back. I have tried to reboot and it does the Droid boot up but reverts to the same B&N home screen.
I was thinking about trying to update to a new ROM since it had been awhile and I figured there must be something better/more stable out there now - Honeycomb or whatever. I guess this is the kick in the ass that I needed.
So now here I sit in a hotel room in BFE. There are no restaurants open past 9. There are no bars. There IS a Super Wal Mart but I think I'm gonna pass on that.
I figured I would look into this. Where to start? Should I re-set this thing to stock and then just pick a new ROM and re-root? Can I do any of this without having a SD card slot in my laptop - just using a USB cable? Will I lose any eBooks that I downloaded?
I await your sage advice.
rooting actually means gaining super user access to the current android rom. B&N, i believe is Froyo, so you did not install any rom so to speak. you were probably just rooted.
I think the issue is with the launcher and not that it is back to stock. What happens when you long press on the home screen?
If you plan to do anything, you will definitely need an sd card reader.
If you autonootered, then you were running stock, but rooted. With a custom launcher replacing the stock launcher, it sounds like.
At any rate, you were probably hit with the automatic update to B&N 1.2 (which is Android 2.2, iirc.) You almost certainly aren't rooted anymore, but it may allow you to run any apps that you already had downloaded, just from the stock app launcher.
When you get an SD card reader, you can check out Manual Nootering. It's basically the same as the old Auto Nooter, but for B&N 1.2. If you change the rom entirely (install CM7) or just run a different rom from an SD card, you'll avoid having B&N overwrite your root access in the future.
Thanks for the responses. I believe that you are correct. I actually was running 1.0.0. I used auto-nooter to root the thing and had it working with a custom launcher. I don't think it updated to 1.2. In fact I know that it didn't update to 1.2. I am trying to get it to do that right now.
I would like to install a new ROM or root or do something after it updates to 1.2 so that I have access to the Android market. What is my best way to do this? Should I just root again from 1.2? Should I install this CM7?
Can you help me understand the differences? Thanks again.
I could Super Wal Mart tonight for a SD card reader if I'm feeling frisky.
I've got all kinds of problems.
I went to update to 1.2 from 1.0. I removed my SD card and erased and deregistered device. I booted it back up and it thinks it's a phone. I put the 1.2 file in the root drive via USB, as I have read over and over that the thing should recognize the 1.2 file and reboot itself. It's not working. I erased and deregistered again. same deal.
Any advice?
I'd do a full factory reset, then try the update to 1.2 again.
A couple of things about the 1.2 update -- do not unzip the update file or rename it. Just drop it as-is into the nook. And make sure to eject the nook from your computer and unplug it.
Thank you aka. I got it to take. I am now at 1.2. Now back to square 1(.2). Any help on this?
Baboontyme said:
I would like to install a new ROM or root or do something after it updates to 1.2 so that I have access to the Android market. What is my best way to do this? Should I just root again from 1.2? Should I install this CM7?
Can you help me understand the differences? Thanks again.
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Baboontyme said:
I booted it back up and it thinks it's a phone. I put the 1.2 file in the root drive via USB, as I have read over and over that the thing should recognize the 1.2 file and reboot itself. It's not working. I erased and deregistered again. same deal.
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ETA: lol, congratulations! I guess just skip to that link at the end.
I'd agree with akaCat that you should do a factory reset, BUT you can only do that if you still have the stock recovery utility, and it seems possible that you do not. Try to get the NC to reset by interrupting the boot 8 times. If it doesn't work, you may have installed ClockworkMod Recovery on your Nook Color in place of the stock recovery utility. You may have done so while rooting, or later from the ROM Manager app, perhaps even by accident.
Have you attempted to boot to recovery by holding down "n" while you power on the device, and continuing to hold power + n for about six seconds (1-one-thousand, 2-one-thousand, etc), then releasing both? If so, do you get a factory reset dialog (series of yes/no options) or a longer menu including items like "mounting and storage" and "flash zip from sd card?" If you get the longer menu, then that's ClockworkMod Recovery, and neither the 8-failed-boots-reset nor the automatic update are going to work.
If you do have ClockworkMod Recovery, don't do anything yet. Hopefully somewhere on the screen it tells you the version number, in the format 3.0.x.x. Just let us know that version number and power off the NC.
If you still have the stock recovery utility, then do the factory reset, boot into the stock OS, connect USB, drop the update file straight on the Nook (not in any folders), safely remove the NC from your PC, and let it sit. Hopefully it will reboot itself.
If not, the next step is probably going to involve preparing a bootable ClockworkMod SD and manually installing a CWM-compatible version of the update, or of a different ROM. This article may help you wrap your head around the different options: http://quinxy.com/guides/how-to-pick-your-nook-color-operating-system-and-install-options/
ETA: lol, congratulations! I guess just skip to that link at the end.
Thank you, Tao. I seem to be a bit stuck, though.
I'm at 1.2 stock. I was able to reformat and erase my sd card. I went to load the .gz image onto the card (for CM7, per instructions here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1000957) and I also loaded the nightly build. Then inserted card into NC and booted. Nothing.
Any idea what I'm doing wrong? Should I unzip either file?
One thing that might/might not matter....when I went to eject the SD card from my PC, I wasn't given that option so I just pulled it.
One more thing.....the instructions at the link above instruct you to "write the image to your SD card" but then go on to say "eject the SD card" and then further "insert the uSD card into your computer"
Huh?? Isn't it all on the same card? Why do I need two different cards? What am I missing?
This blog breaks down the same process a little more step-by-step, with videos: http://www.anamardoll.com/2011/04/ereader-running-cm7-firmware-on-nook.html
You can skip the long preamble down to "Ready? Let's get started."
You do need to unzip the disk image, and write it to the SD using a program like Win32DiskImager or WinImage. It's also definitely a good idea to safely eject the SD card from your PC.
Hi Tao and others. Thanks again for all of your help. I'm almost there!
I followed this Ana chick's directions and I have CM7 booting up. I am now at the stage where I am trying to boot up in recovery mode so I can get the google apps and wifi thing going. I can't get it to work! I am holding down the "n"/home button and then the power button and it keeps booting up with CM7. I've tried it probably 20 times. Any help? Thanks!
Can someone also tell me how to access the book I just purchased and was in the middle of reading? Do I have to go somewhere and re-download?
Baboontyme said:
Hi Tao and others. Thanks again for all of your help. I'm almost there!
I followed this Ana chick's directions and I have CM7 booting up. I am now at the stage where I am trying to boot up in recovery mode so I can get the google apps and wifi thing going. I can't get it to work! I am holding down the "n"/home button and then the power button and it keeps booting up with CM7. I've tried it probably 20 times. Any help? Thanks!
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I should add that though I can get CM7 to boot, I never get "The Power of Reading". It's just kind of a flash.
That's all normal--verygreen had to make a new uboot, which no longer shows "The Power of Reading" and also flies through a recovery boot so fast you could miss it. If gapps didn't install, just make sure the .zip is still in the boot partition and keep trying. I'm pretty sure holding power > reboot > recovery boot works now from within CM7, but I would go into Settings>Accounts and try to sign in to Google before assuming it didn't install.
If the book was a B&N purchase, once you have the market working, just install the Nook app and sign into your account, and you should be able to re-d/l the book, possibly even still synced to where you left off.
Thank you so much Tao and others. Up and running with CM7. Any additional mods I should be messing with?
btw, you can also boot into recovery through rom manager, its easier.
Baboontyme said:
Thank you so much Tao and others. Up and running with CM7. Any additional mods I should be messing with?
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You can overclock: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=925451
Just make sure you grab the version for SD, and install it just like gapps, then set clock speed via CyanogenMod Settings>Performance>CPU
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btw, you can also boot into recovery through rom manager, its easier.
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Easier than holding power a sec, poking "Reboot," then "Reboot to Recovery?"
Really, it's about the same either way, depending how handy ROM manager is on your system.
Hi everyone! Please help me! I've spent most of the last 18 hours on this, rested, and have come back hoping to start today off positively.
I have a new "blue dot" nook with the new partitioning scheme. Not realizing that, I tried to install CM7 internally using a youtube video from huskermania (sorry, XDAforums will not let me link). All went fine, I assume, except for an error in Clockwork that read: Error: can't format /data" error. I believe, after researching, this is a result of the change in partitioning.
Frustrated that I had bricked my nook, and not really wanting to run an internal anyways so I can revert back to regular ROM if I want, I tried to unroot using directions from huskermania again. I really thought it had worked, but it is now stuck on the rainbow Nook Color screen, which will disappear and come back repeatedly.
Please help. My goal is to reinstall the original ROM, then try to install another using SD, but that's not my main priority right now.
HURRAY!!!!
Ok, success!!!! I cannot believe something finally worked. The 8 step reboot did not work, but using power, home, and +volume did.
I am saving the SD card I used to reboot this. Any thoughts on the best way to root a new "blue dot" nook using external so I don ever have this issue again? I know I need to change the partitioning, but I'm still not sure how, even after reading what Maurice Mongeon has to say in his post "how to repartition a blue dot nook color." Thoughts?
How exactly did you finally get it to work? I've done the exact same thing and I'm not sure what to do next. I have a refurbed NC that came with 1.2 installed and I rooted it with manualnooter and immediately flashed CM7.02 stable from CWM 3.0.2.8. It had all kinds of force close issues so I tried to restore to stock but keep getting stuck on the boot animation. I re-flashed CM7 and it still works but I still have all kinds of force close issues. When I try to format data in CWM it says can't format /data! I'm kind of at a loss right now...
UPDATE: Got it working. I had been using the wrong cwm...
Hey Guys,
I did some work on an Incredible this past weekend and was really impressed with how seamless the installation of of CWM was and how simple it was to backup the rom and install CM7. I'd like the same ease of use for my Nook Color but I can't seem to get CWM to work when I "reboot to recovery". I can try it from the power button menu or from RomManager itself. As such there's no "one touch upgrade" for me and I need an SD card in order to upgrade the system.
For me, this isn't the end of the world but I'm setting up my friend and I'd like him to be able to keep his system current when good important updates come out.
I'm on CM7.0.0-encore. (I know, time to upgrade... I'm working on it )
Thanks
Fishfoot
What happens when you try to re-flash CWM?
I also have a Dinc, flashed it to CM7 first, and it took me a few tries to realize its a slightly different process on the NC. I had to open RomManager, choose my device (Color Nook is in the list, scroll!), and flash the recovery actually onto the device. I believe on the Dinc, it prompted me to do that when I first opened RM - not so on the NC.
Now, it behaves just like the Dinc - still easier to get into recovery by using the menus and rebooting into it, than getting the right key combos to work.
hey i just attempted to root my wife's nook color, 1.3, using this method http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1054027
i have made the boot disk and pushed both nooter zips to disk, cwm comes up and it runs both zips just fine, ive tried both one after other ten reboot, reboot in between, wipe dalvik and the run but i always get stuck in the boot loop
can anyone tell me what im doing wrong here
and the plot thickens... so i did the 8 failed manual reset, and rebooted to stock, repeated process.. im out of bootloop but it appears the touch screen doesnt work anymore???
yeah so no matter how many times i 8 fail reset still no touch screen, all other buttons work, tried reinstalling clockwork and nothing...i bought the insurance, do i need to run it over cause im outta ideas, my first thought was ui was missing file but it should go back if i reset shouldnt it???
just shoot me..please
ok back to stock, re root, boot loop again, re stock , cm7 (update-cm-7.1.0-encore-signed) + gapps (gapps-gb-20110307-signed) and now application setup wizard has stopped unexpectedly.....stuck...thoughts? please am i over thinking/looking something
day two...
i created sd boot img with cwm 3.2.08, im seeing that i need to use cwm 3.2.01 in a few places.. when i get the file from clockwork (recovery-clockwork-3.2.0.1-encore) and try to write the image to the sd card something is wrong, its not a format that the windows recognizes and so i cant add zips to it and i get nothing in the nook. ive tried to reformat from the pc and in an old android phone i have but its always the same when i try to write to sd , is this the wrong image, can i find it somewhere else
i am using same 8gb sd card i made first boot disk out of, do i need to use a new one??
i got it to work i have good cwm 3.2.01 on nook...
stock + root?
ok it seems that cwm 3.2.0.8 was definitely my problem, i switched to recovery-clockwork-3.2.0.1-encore which i got from http://tinyw.in/0Vw
problem remains that when i flash man nooter 18 then 16 i get nothing, I was stuck on "n" load screen not even a boot loop
i then pushed cm7 again and i am operating as a full android tablet, i want the stock nook image with gapps can anyone help.. im leaving be till i get a answer, didnt want to update to 1.4 or downgrade to 1.2 havent seen a stock img of 1.3 anywhere
Hi, folks! I'll post this question here just in case I can get more help, as I've run out of ideas, and I've read all the threads on the specified subject, but none have helped. If it's against the rules, then Mods, please delete the thread. If not, Thank you.
The Problem:
I recently upgraded to CM7.2 Mirage-KANG- from Phiremod 6.2. The Nook was running great until I tried to upgrade to the ICS/CM9 nightly from here. The Nook would refuse to boot. The only way I could get it to boot was with an old CWM sd card I'd used to root it in the first place. I figured I could fix the boot by wiping the /data, /system, and /cache files from the Nook. Bad move. That just made things worse, as now, the Nook doesn't even load from the SD Card anymore unless I hold the "n" key and hold the power button.
I tried restoring it to to stock 1.01 to possibly start from scratch, and all was well, until it was time to register it. It wouldn't let me, even while on wi-fi. It would give me an "error has occurred, Nook will now Power Off" message without weven loading or anything. Upon further inspection, I checked the properties tab by accessing the wi-fi menu and saw that the model number and unit I.D.(I think) were "unknown" and in red letters.
Presently:
Since then, I tried everything from the Autonooter to the Monster Recovery Pack and nothing works. The Nook, without the Micro SD loaded, shows the Cyanogenmod7 logo loading, then goes black, though the backlight remains on. With the card, it goes straight into CWM. It sometimes doesn't boot into anything at all.
Extra Info:
I'm using a Sandisk (4) 8 GB card for the rooting and such. I normally use the 16 GB (4) model.
So my question is:
What can I do from here? Can/should I go back to the beginning as a Stock Nook 1.0, or is there a better, wiser alternative that I can use to get the Nook booting into CM7 or higher normally?
Any help'd be greatly appreciated.
Did you try following the directions on this post http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=931720
Yeah, as a matter of fact, I tried the exact same directions on both those pages, and used that exact CWM 3.0.2 img file to install the Nook 1.01 file.
From there, my Nook boots up fine, gets past the "n" logo, but once in the setup, won't register because it's serial #, Model #, and Mac Address are "missing", and won't let me past the Setup Menu.
Update: I managed to flash Stock 1.0.2. to the Nook. Upon booting it up, it prevented me from registering the Nook, until I figured out the factory mode method to bypass it, and used Autonooter to root.
Now I have a dilemma: I want to ditch Stock and jump to some sort of CM7, but Stock won't allow me to reboot into CWM at all, even after having flashed it through Rom Manager or flashing it to EMMC.
I know there's a way out, I just don't see it.
Any advice would be appreciated.
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I would assume you already have CWM on a SD card. Drop your chosen CM 7 zip onto the card, boot into CWM recovery, choose the zip and install. Same should work with ICS zip but you shpuld prolly avoid it until its in more stable shape.